Dark Days at GM – 13 Plants are Idle
It’s tough being an employee of General Motors these days – CFO’s and CEO’s are coming and going, white and blue collar employees are being laid off. Now, GM is ordering 13 plants across North America to be set to idle.
The company says it will pause production (temporarily – yeah right) of 13 assembly lines across the United States and Mexico. Part of the reason this is happening is a dispute between GM and one of its major suppliers Delphi. Here’s a list of the effected plants: GM says it will shut down the following U.S. plants: Arlington, Texas (eight weeks beginning May 11); Bowling Green, Kentucky (one week beginning July 13); Detroit-Hamtramck (all of June); Fairfax, Kansas (one week beginning June 29); Flint, Michigan (eight weeks beginning May11); Ft. Wayne, Indiana (nine weeks beginning May 11); Lansing, Michigan (four weeks beginning May 4); Lordstown, Ohio (three weeks beginning June 1); Pontiac, Michigan (six weeks beginning June 1); Shreveport, Louisiana (three weeks beginning June 15); Spring Hill, Tennessee (three weeks beginning June 8); Wilmington, Delaware (two weeks beginning June 15); and Wentzville, Missouri (three weeks beginning June 8). The automaker’s Silao, Mexico, plant will shut down for seven weeks beginning May 18.
Although, according to Left Lane News, GM’s new CEO Fritz Henderson said the automaker would close some of its assembly plants, but the automaker has not announced locations yet.
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